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February 12, 2000: Barack & Michelle Obama Party Down with Radicals Ayers & Klonsky
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Saturday, February 12, 2000
Grand Ballroom, Navy Pier
Honorary Committee
Joanne Alter, Founder Working In The Schools Arnita Boswell, Founder, Board Member National Hook Up of Black Women Julie Chavez, Managing Director Bank of America Illinois Ronald Gidwitz, Partner GCG Partners Sandra Guthman, President Polk Bros. Foundation Leon Jackson, President Multi-Fac Corporation R. Eden Martin, President Civic Committee, Commercial Club of Chicago Richard Morrow, Retired Chairman and CEO Amoco Corporation Adele Simmons, Vice President Chicago Metropolis 2020 Rev. Kenneth W. Smith, Senior Fellow Chicago Community Trust Christina Tchen, Partner Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Planning Committee
Susan Ansai, literacy coordinator North Lawndale Learning Community Chryssa Atkinson, communications director Chicago Annenberg Challenge John Ayers, executive director Leadership for Quality Education Willie Coles, senior program officer Steans Family Foundation James Deanes, director CPS Office of School and Community Relations Stephanie Gadlin, director of community affairs Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Gabe Gonzalez, executive director Northwest Neighborhood Federation Wanda Hopkins, advocacy trainer Parents United for Responsible Education Susan Klonsky, consultant Small Schools Workshop Rochelle Lee, president Rochelle Lee Fund Diana Nelson, public affairs director Union League Club Rose Nicholson, assistant principal Robeson High School Michelle Obama, assistant dean University of Chicago Idida Perez, executive director West Town Leadership Project Robert Quashie, account supervisor Edelman Public Relations Juan Rangel, executive director United Neighborhood Organization Timothy Russell, supervisor Sara Lee Foundation Norma White, vice president Chicago Teachers Union  To order tickets, call our promline: (312) 427-4830, ext. 1-300. Se Habla Espanol |
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John & William Ayers
Who "sent" Obama?
By Steve Diamond
originally posted April 22, 2008, with many updates since then
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-sent-obama.html
So, who did send Obama? The key I think is his ties not to well connected uber lawyer Newton Minow, as Kaufman suggests, but more likely to the family of (in)famous former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers not just Bill Ayers, but also Bills father Tom Ayers and his brother John as well...
A 1987 teachers strike brought those two sides together to push for a reform act passed by the Illinois legislature in 1988 that created "Local School Councils" (LSC) to be elected by residents in a particular school area.
Active in the local control from below, on the "community" side of this effort, was Bill Ayers who had returned to Chicago in 1987 as an assistant professor of education at the University of Illinois' Chicago Circle campus, after surfacing from the underground and earning his Ph.D. at Columbia...
Ayers, of course, had long held what the left once knew, broadly, as maoist or "neo-stalinist" politics a view of the world that was opposed to Russian style bureaucratic communism from above, instead advocates of this approach supported sending revolutionary cadre to swim among the masses like fish in the sea or attempting to establish guerilla foco as romantically theorized by Regis Debray and carried out with disastrous results by Che Guevara...
Bill's brother John later got in on the small schools approach also, raising money in part from the Annenberg Challenge program started by Bill and chaired by Obama (see School Leadership in Times of Urban Reform edited by Bizar and Barr).
A leading figure in the Chicago business groups that were lobbying from above for cost cutting and "efficiency" in the Chicago schools in the 1980's was Bill Ayers' father, Thomas Ayers. Tom Ayers, of course, was a very prominent Chicago business man, a retired head of Commonwealth Edison, a lifelong liberal, and a supporter of open housing campaigns (in which my parents participated when I grew up in Chicago in the 60s) as well as Martin Luther King.
When the 1988 Reform Act was passed a group called Leadership for Quality Education (LQE) was formed, according to Shipps, by the elite business lobby that was in part behind the new reforms, to train the newly elected local school council members...
Interestingly, one LSC member was John Ayers, son of Tom and brother of Bill. In 1993, John was made head of the LQE - which, by then, according to Shipps, was caught in the middle of the battle emerging to re-centralize control of the schools in the hands of the mayor.
I can only speculate, but it is possible that Tom Ayers also introduced Obama to Sidley. That might have happened if Obama had met up with Bill and Tom and John Ayers prior to attending law school when Obama's DCP group was one of the only black Chicago organizations supporting the reform act passed in 1988...
Thus, we have one possible answer to the question: Who "sent" Obama? It was the Ayers family, including Tom, John, Bill and Bernardine Dohrn...
Richard & William Ayers
Remembering a Sixties Terrorist
By Donna Ron
1/4/2006
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID=9E8CD8A7-E90B-4311-8AA9-AEFD014A14B2
...Bill Ayers apartment was around the corner and a half a block away from the sorority house. The more time I spent there, the more out of place I felt with my sisters. Sometimes I would stop by just to keep from having to go back to a place I had begun to think of as boring. I guess it was one of those evenings -- maybe on the way back from the library, maybe just to get out of the sorority house, I dont remember exactly. What I do recall is that when I was getting ready to leave Ayers told me I couldnt go until I slept with his roommate and his brother. At this point Bill and I had slept together just once. I was sexually inexperienced, having had only one serious boyfriend with whom I had recently broken up.
At first I thought Ayers was joking. I got up; and went to the door. He moved quickly to block me at the doorway. He locked the door and put the chain on it. I went to the couch and sat down and told him that I had no intention of having sex with his roommate and his brother or him. He said that I had no choice but to do as he said if I wanted to get out of there. He claimed that I wouldnt sleep with his married roommate because he was black -- that I was a bigot. I had gone to school with black kids and had them as friends all my life. I couldnt believe he was saying that to me
I felt trapped. I had to get out of the situation I was in and because he was so effective a guilt-tripper, I also felt I had to prove to him that I wasnt a bigot. I got up from the couch and walked over to the black roommates bed and put myself on it and he f***ed me. I went totally out of my body. I floated beside myself on the outside and above the bed looking at this black stranger f*** me angrily while I hated myself.
After that I had to go lie down on Bill Ayers bed for his brother to screw me. Rick Ayers was a decent person, unlike his brother, and couldnt go through with it He started and stopped and let me go. I also thought I had to let Bill screw me but at that point he unbolted the door and I left.
I remember going back to the sorority house and talking to my best girlfriend and telling her what had happened. But there were no words yet to describe it. There was no term date rape yet in our political vocabulary. The notion of a psychological rape was not on the table.
I was a mess and felt it was my fault for letting it happen. I was ashamed. Back home at the end of the semester, I got my parents to send me to a psychiatrist. What had happened affected my ability to trust in a relationship with a man and I didnt have a close relationship again for a long time...
Susan & Michael Klonsky
Behind the Annenberg Gate: Inside the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Records
By Steve Diamond
August 20, 2008
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/08/behind-annenberg-gate-inside-chicago.html
...As I have argued elsewhere on this blog, I do not think that the link made here between the LSCs and democracy is, in fact, accurate. I think that such councils look eerily similar to efforts by regimes like those in Nicaragua under the Sandinistas and Venezuela under Chavez to impose control over teachers and their independent unions by an authoritarian regime. Thus, it is not a surprise to me that Bill Ayers has traveled several times in recent years to Venezuela where he has spoken in front of Hugo Chavez and has enthusiastically applauded that regimes efforts to link education policy to the Chavez revolution.
As Ayers stated in a speech there in November 2006 La educacion es Revolucion! He applauded the profound educational reforms underway here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez and he said he share[d] the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution...
One of the first grants awarded in 1995 was a $175,000 Implementation Grant to the Small Schools Workshop. The Workshop had been founded by Bill Ayers in 1992 and was headed up by his former SDS comrade and hardcore Maoist, Mike Klonsky. Klonsky actually visited China and met with its stalinist leaders in the early 1970s. Klonsky still heads up the Small Schools Workshop and, until it was summarily removed, hosted a blog on "social justice" and education issues on the official Barack Obama Presidential campaign website. Hundreds of thousands of dollars more would be forthcoming from the CAC for the Klonsky group...
Who "sent" Obama?
By Steve Diamond
originally posted April 22, 2008, with many updates since then
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-sent-obama.html
...Bill raised money to start the Small Schools Workshop in the early 90s and eventually hired another former maoist from the 60s (and actually someone who was a bitter opponent of Ayers as SDS disintegrated) named Mike Klonsky first as research director and then to head it up. Klonsky was a PhD student at UIC studying under Ayers. Obama would approved grants of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Workshop from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008; ayers; democrats; elections; fidelodinga; klonsky; nobama08; obama; obamatruthfile; prom
To: ETL; pissant
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10/15/2008 5:14:17 PM PDT
by
BossLady
(Say Hello to .....Jericho....)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Great job, Kay! Thanks for sending!
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10/15/2008 5:15:40 PM PDT
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SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Pardon me, but who is John Ayers?
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10/15/2008 5:16:41 PM PDT
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unspun
(Pray and Work! http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Michele Obama was an ASSISTANT DEAN????? Is she STILL on the PAYROLL????
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10/15/2008 5:16:57 PM PDT
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Ann Archy
(Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Not to put too fine a point on it, but there IS a difference between John Ayers and William Ayers.
Perhaps not much, perhaps huge.
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10/15/2008 5:17:50 PM PDT
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Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D. - "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: unspun
John Ayers is Bill’s brother.
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10/15/2008 5:18:41 PM PDT
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SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: Redbob
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10/15/2008 5:19:07 PM PDT
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SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Oh, I see — John Ayers is Bill Ayers’ brother.
The story of the psychological guilt trip rape is emblematic of what the SDS, Weathermen and other Marxists have been trying to do to America — get manipulated black people to %&$&# it — and get Americans to be willing for it to happen.
It is also from my observation, very demonic.
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10/15/2008 5:19:45 PM PDT
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unspun
(Pray and Work! http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
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10/15/2008 5:20:00 PM PDT
by
RDTF
(BO smells and eventually people do what's necessary to avoid it)
To: unspun
The graphic says John Ayers is brother of (terrorist) William Ayers.
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10/15/2008 5:20:22 PM PDT
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Cedar
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
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10/15/2008 5:21:09 PM PDT
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1035rep
To: unspun
Pardon me, but who is John Ayers?
He is the brother of Bill Ayers.
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
I got up; and went to the door. He moved quickly to block me at the doorway. He locked the door and put the chain on it. I went to the couch and sat down and told him that I had no intention of having sex with his roommate and his brother or him. He said that I had no choice but to do as he said if I wanted to get out of there. He claimed that I wouldnt sleep with his married roommate because he was black -- that I was a bigot. I had gone to school with black kids and had them as friends all my life. I couldnt believe he was saying that to me
I felt trapped. I had to get out of the situation I was in and because he was so effective a guilt-tripper, I also felt I had to prove to him that I wasnt a bigot. I got up from the couch and walked over to the black roommates bed and put myself on it and he f***ed me. I went totally out of my body. I floated beside myself on the outside and above the bed looking at this black stranger f*** me angrily while I hated myself.
After that I had to go lie down on Bill Ayers bed for his brother to screw me.
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
I took you up on it. Seems like anytime you find socialism, Hussein’s name follows.
“Campaign for Better Health Care
by Bob Roman
The Campaign for Better Health Care held its first annual conference on Saturday, October 25th. Appropriately enough, it was held on the Rush - Presbyterian - St. Luke campus on the near west side of Chicago.
Nearly a hundred people attended workshops and meetings designed to educate and plan further action. In particular, CBHC is continuing to work on HB 626, the Healthcare Consumers’ Bill of Rights, but they are also concerned about Illinois’ implementation of health insurance for uninsured children. In Chicago, CBHC has a project to hold hospitals accountable to the surrounding community. State legislators Barak Obama, Jesus Garcia and Mary Flowers contributed their experience and insights to the meeting.”
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng55.html
http://www.chicagodsa.org/page2.html
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10/15/2008 5:26:14 PM PDT
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neal1960
(This space for rent.)
To: BossLady
Thanks. Wonder if Brother Bill was there?
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10/15/2008 5:29:33 PM PDT
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pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
"Arnita Boswell, Founder, Board Member National Hook Up of Black Women"They've got a NATIONAL ORGANIZATION for that???
I'd thought all they had to do was go hang out at a bar for a little while...
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10/15/2008 5:29:44 PM PDT
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Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D. - "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: Brown Deer
Lord I hope nobody ever thinks I’m like MY brother!!!
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10/15/2008 5:31:01 PM PDT
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Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D. - "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Thanks! Will pass on! Here what I posted earlier in another thread: Time line of Obama’s involvement with radical groups.
Here’s excerpts from it:
1988- The ABCs Coalition was coordinated by Bill Ayers, whose father was a key member of ABC. Another member of the ABCs was Obamas Developing Communities Project.. The two must have crossed paths again.
1989 Tom Ayers (father) and William Ayers got Obama a summer job at Sidley & Austin (where he meets Michelle Obama); Ayers wife Dohrn also worked there the same time.
April, 1992- Obama, Ayers & Dohrn had their documented public gathering sponsored by the U. of Illinois, Chicago
1992 - Obama graduates from Harvard and returns to Chicago
1992, Obama became director of Project Vote, Illinois.
1992-New Party was founded- a Marxist political coalition whose objective was to endorse and elect leftist officials mostly Democrats. They want to move the Democratic Party leftward..
1993 Ayers places Obama on Woods Foundation, which gave sizable grants to ACORN, Rev. Wrights church , etc.
1995 -publishes Dreams From my father1995 Ayers made Obama Chairman of Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC)
1995-1999- Obama served as President of CAC
1999-2001- Obama served as Board of Director, CAC
After CAC closed down, Obama served on a successor group called the Leadership Council of the Chicago Public Schools Education Fund. Ayers brother John and their father Thomas served with Obama. By now, news all over about Ayers boasts of his terrorist acts.
1995 Ayers hosts a coffee fundraiser for Obamas political debut (Obama falsely claims this is when he first met Ayers when he has met him AT LEAST 8 years earlier!) -Chicago Times interview: 10-7-08 Lynn Sweet
Obamas advisor, Axelrod , claim that Obama did not know Ayers history when he went to his home (Fox interviews, Oct. 08). The big problem is Ayers’ associations were frequently reported on, especially in Chicago where he and his wife had been active. During the 1990s, when Obama lived in Chicago, dozens of stories on Ayers and his wife ran in newspapers, including The New York Times, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, a database search reveals.(Oct. 13, 2008 John Lott, Fox)
1996-Ayers began to contribute money to Obamas campaign.
How is it possible that Obama in writing two autobiographies could ignore his 13 year-long association with Ayers if he were not purposely trying to hide it?
1996, Ayers played a significant role within the Democratic party in Chicago. Democrats were proud to be allied with him. ( Chicago Tribune, Aug 27, 1996)
David Lytel, who set up President Clinton’s Web site said, There is a lot of room for different ideas in progressive politics, and we’re proud to be associated with Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers,”
Ayers & , Henry DeZutter consider themselves “The Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party hasn’t gone underground. . . . We’re on the Internet!”
1995- Obama, along with Rev.Wright, helped organize the Farrakhans famous Million Man March in DC. Farrakhan is a longtime friend of Wright and comrade of Michael Pfleger. Yeah, birds of the feathers flock together! It’s evident that the liberationist preachers were also Obamas valued political allies.
1995- he sued, on behalf of ACORN, for the implementation of the Motor Voter law in Illinois. ACORN later invited Obama to help train its staff on how to shake down banks.
1995- Obama sought the New Partys (socialistic) endorsement for his 1996 state senate run. Democratic Socialists of America founded the “New Party” He got it and he used New Party volunteers as campaign workers. The New Party rigorously evaluated its candidate endorsements & Obama HAD to sign a contract that he agrees with its goals! The contract mandates that they must have a visible and active relationship with the NP
1997-Ayers published his radical book, A Kind and Just Parent, in which he brags of his terrorist acts
Dec 97, Obama wrote a positive review of Ayers’s book in the Chicago Tribune the following month. He did not know Ayers past?
1997- another joint appearance with Ayer
1990s-Obama was a card carrying documented active member, participant and a direct political beneficiary of the Chicago New Party and, importantly, the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Newsletter said Obama walked the walk & talked the talk ( Newsletter , New Ground 45, March-April , 96.)
Democratic Socialists of America - as the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, DSA is the largest socialist organization in US. Weatherman Underground splintered from SDA in 1969
1996-when Obama ran with the blessings of the Marxist New Party and Chicago Democratic Socialist Party
April 11, 1996- Obama attended membership meeting where he expressed his gratitude for their support.
1996-Obama was speaker at meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America (Sponsored by: University of Chicago Democratic Socialists of America )
1998- Connie Chung ABC interviewed Ayers & wife & they said, We were young, idealistic, and We would do it (bomb) again. I wish we have done more! This was HUGE news! Obama must have watched news!
2000- Obama was supported by leftist catholic priest, Rev. Michael Pfleger of Saint Sabina Catholic Church, in his House of Rep. race. He was another Obamas spiritual adviser . 1995- 2001, Pfleger contributed $1,500 to his campaigns. Obama later sponsored a $100,000 earmark to help finance Pflegers youth center
2001- Ayers was photographed stepping on American flag and I guess Obama missed the news again? In his Fugitive Days, Ayers boasts that he participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970
All told, responsible for some 30 bombings. Ayvers bragged, I dont regret setting bombs, I feel we didnt do enough. Was Obama blind, deaf, incredibly naive?
2001-2002, Woods Fund with directors Ayers and Obama, made grants of $40,000 and $35,000 to the Arab American Action Network, founded by radical Kashid Khalidi . Rashid is a professor at Columbia. he was strongly identified with PLO. Khalidi hosted a fundraiser for Obama in 2000.
April-2002, Obama & Ayers spoke at another panel.
2002 through 2005, the two regularly exchanged emails and phone calls.
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10/15/2008 5:31:31 PM PDT
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savvyguy
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Thanks. Bill POS Ayers BUMP!
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10/15/2008 5:38:33 PM PDT
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PGalt
To: unspun
November 4, 1997 Contact: Carrie Golus
(773) 702-8359
cgolus@uchicago.edu
Should a child ever be called a super predator?
A panel at the University of Chicago debates the merits of the juvenile justice system
Children who kill are called super predators, people with no conscience, feral pre-social beings”and adults.
William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court(Beacon Press, 1997), says We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isnt suddenly an adult. We have to ask other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?
Ayers, who spent a year observing the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago, is one of four panelists who will speak on juvenile justice at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the C-Shop of the Reynolds Club, 5706 S. University Ave.
The panel, which marks the 100th anniversary of the juvenile justice system in the United States, is part of the Community Service Centers monthly discussion series on issues affecting the city of Chicago.
The event is free and open to the public.
Ayers will be joined by Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the University of Chicago Law School, who is working to block proposed legislation that would throw more juvenile offenders into the adult system; Randolph Stone, Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Chicago; Alex Correa, a reformed juvenile offender who spent 7 years in Cook County Temporary Detention Center; Frank Tobin, a former priest and teacher in the Detention Center who helped Correa; and Willy Baldwin, who grew up in public housing and is currently a teacher in the Detention Center.
The juvenile justice system was founded by Chicago reformer Jane Addams, who advocated the establishment of a separate court system for children which would act like a kind and just parent for children in crisis.
One hundred years later, the system is overcrowded, under-funded, over-centralized and racist, Ayers said.
Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University of Chicago Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community.
We know that issues like juvenile justice impact each of us who live in the city of Chicago. This panel gives community members and students a chance to hear about the juvenile justice system not only on a theoretical level, but from the people who have experienced it.
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/97/971104.juvenile.justice.shtml
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10/15/2008 5:48:45 PM PDT
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angcat
To: savvyguy
I really don’t even understand how Ayers isn’t locked away for his crimes? What judge turned him loose?
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10/15/2008 5:51:23 PM PDT
by
killermosquito
(Buffalo (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
November 4, 1997 Press Contact: Julia Morse
(773) 702-8359
morse@uchicago.edu
Should a child ever be called a super predator?
A panel at the University of Chicago debates the merits of the juvenile justice system
Children who kill are called super predators, people with no conscience, feral pre-social beings”and adults.
William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court(Beacon Press, 1997), says We should call a child a child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isnt suddenly an adult. We have to ask other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?
Ayers, who spent a year observing the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago, is one of four panelists who will speak on juvenile justice at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the C-Shop of the Reynolds Club, 5706 S. University Ave.
The panel, which marks the 100th anniversary of the juvenile justice system in the United States, is part of the Community Service Centers monthly discussion series on issues affecting the city of Chicago.
The event is free and open to the public.
Ayers will be joined by Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the University of Chicago Law School, who is working to block proposed legislation that would throw more juvenile offenders into the adult system; Randolph Stone, Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Chicago; Alex Correa, a reformed juvenile offender who spent 7 years in Cook County Temporary Detention Center; Frank Tobin, a former priest and teacher in the Detention Center who helped Correa; and Willy Baldwin, who grew up in public housing and is currently a teacher in the Detention Center.
The juvenile justice system was founded by Chicago reformer Jane Addams, who advocated the establishment of a separate court system for children which would act like a kind and just parent for children in crisis.
One hundred years later, the system is overcrowded, under-funded, over-centralized and racist, Ayers said.
Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University of Chicago Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community.
We know that issues like juvenile justice impact each of us who live in the city of Chicago. This panel gives community members and students a chance to hear about the juvenile justice system not only on a theoretical level, but from the people who have experienced it.
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10/15/2008 5:52:25 PM PDT
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snippy_about_it
(The FReeper Foxhole. America's history, America's soul.)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Good work......BUT....
Outside of our limited, conservative bubble here at FR, this will resonate with about 1-2% of the American voting population....sorry. That is what you get with a dumbed down electorate. We are heading to socialism in a hand basket.
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10/15/2008 5:53:17 PM PDT
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AmericanInTokyo
(RINOs **BETRAY** us, since, if they ever DO take off the gloves vs. the Libs, they do so too late...)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
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Yes, his complete name is Fidel Castro Odinga. He is the eldest son of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and a first cousin to Barack Hussein Obama. The late Obama Sr. was the prime minister's maternal uncle. Although Obama Sr. was educated at Harvard and Odinga in East Germany, uncle and nephew were friends and political allies.
Today it is Barack Obama and Raila Odinga who have formed a transcontinental political alliance. In fact, Senator Obama, in an unprecedented breech of protocal, went to Kenya in 2006 to campaign on his cousin's behalf in that country's presidential election.
Raila lost the election when a secret pact was revealed with Kenya's Muslim Brotherhood to institute sharia law in all the country's courts in exchange for their support of his candidacy. This is all the more remarkable because it is Christianity (66%), not Islam (10%), which is the largest religion in Kenya, and English common law, not the Koran, which is the basis for its legal system. Or, perhaps, it is not so remarkable, after all, since both the Odingas and Obamas belong to the 10 percent.
Although not an observant Muslim, Odinga does represent Moammar Qaffafy's oil interests in southern Africa, which may better explain his willingness to tranform his non-Muslim country into a Muslim state as Idi Amin did in Uganda when he was the recipient of the colonel's largesse 30 years ago.
Odinga's connection to Barack Obama, however, has proved more useful in his political career than Qadaffy's billions. It was in the expectation of Obama's election as president, and to ingratiate himself to him, that Odinga's political rival offered him the premiership as a consolation prize.
When Prime Minister Odinga named his son "Fidel Castro," he broke with Kenyan tradition as he should have named him for the boy's grandfather Oginga Odinga (the Kenyan "Fidel Castro"), a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who led an unsuccessful coup to topple the government of Kenya on behalf of the Soviets.
It is not known whether Oginga Odinga's brother-in-law, Obama Sr., was involved in the coup, though given the tribal character of politics in Kenya it would be difficult to imagine that he wasn't at least aware of it or wouldn't have profited by it even if he didn't contribute to it. Indeed, that may have been the reason for Obama Sr.'s failed political career in Kenya.
It is certainly ironic that Obama Sr.'s star eclipsed because of his relationship to Oginga Odinga, whereas his son Raila's rose because of his connection to Obama Jr.
We wonder how things might have turned out if Obama Sr., the Harvard-trained economist, had followed his cousin's example and named his American-born son "John Maynard Keynes Obama."
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10/15/2008 5:54:46 PM PDT
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Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
But....but... I thought they were just folks that lived in the [neighbor]hood man?
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
WHY WOULD A UNITED STATES SENATOR NAMED BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA TRAVEL TO KENYA ON TAXPAYER $ TO CAMPAIGN FOR AN ADMITTED COMMUNIST WHO NAMED HIS SON FIDEL CASTRO ODINGA?
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10/15/2008 5:58:59 PM PDT
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Rome2000
(Peace is not an option)
To: killermosquito
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10/15/2008 6:00:52 PM PDT
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Son House
( It takes a Woman)
To: thestob
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posted on
10/15/2008 6:01:46 PM PDT
by
thestob
(Vote or P. Diddy will kill you)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee; LucyT; Gemsbok; Arthur Wildfire! March; jan in Colorado
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posted on
10/15/2008 6:07:50 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(Fair Dinkum!)
To: VigilantAmerican
Ping for your information...
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posted on
10/15/2008 8:09:58 PM PDT
by
jacquej
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
To: unspun; Fred Nerks; LucyT
Yes, stir up the sentiments of racism and get in control then ‘stick it’ to America.
How can we use this information to rip the head off this languishing story and get it to the people?
Obama seems to be getting a pass on the,”I was 8 years old when Ayers was a terrorist.”
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posted on
10/16/2008 3:05:23 AM PDT
by
Gemsbok
(Fight voter FRAUD (Acorn)(Obama) and be a poll worker or observer: Get in their face!!!)
To: All
Excellent work but it don’t matter. These will be the people at the inaugural ball in a few months. We allowed this to happen, the GOP wimped out for years and new we’re goning to pay BIG TIME!
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posted on
10/16/2008 3:13:44 AM PDT
by
sonic109
To: Gemsbok
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posted on
10/16/2008 3:23:34 AM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(Fair Dinkum!)
To: Calpernia; Kevmo; Fred Nerks; null and void; pissant; george76; Polarik; PhilDragoo; FARS; ...
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posted on
10/16/2008 3:43:16 AM PDT
by
LucyT
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
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posted on
10/16/2008 4:11:07 AM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: LucyT
Thanks for the ping LucyT. I call it “Info-coup”. A good dose of it this morning.
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posted on
10/16/2008 4:35:20 AM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, Call 'em what you will, they ALL have Fairies livin' in their Trees.)
To: BossLady; All
Thanks for the ping. Here is some more info on Michael Klonsky. He wasn't just a 'Maoist radical', he, as chairman of a then newly founded Maoist political party in the United States (the party no longer exists), actually traveled to China in order to have the party recognized as the official American 'sister' party of the ChiComs' own official communist party. Obama and Ayers, through Annenberg, gave Klonsky's "Small Schools Workshop" a $175,000 grant!
"The Small Schools Workshop was founded in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Chicago to provide support for teachers who were trying to create new smaller learning environments. Its director is Michael Klonsky, a former professor of education at UIC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Schools_Workshop
Comment: I suspect the real reason they are pushing for smaller schools is that they would make more easily managed indoctrination centers for their hardcore commie-left re-education programs. -ETL
Some background on Bill Ayers' SDS comrade, Michael Klonsky
(Chicago Annenberg Challenge-related)
"One of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrns comrades in the late 60s Students for a Democratic Society was Mike Klonsky. When Dohrn and Ayers moved in one direction toward the violent tactics of the Weather Underground, Klonsky, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, dropped the pro-Russian communist politics of his parents and became a committed Maoist. As leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) in 1977 [not to be confused with Communist Party USA. CPML no longer exists, CPUSA formed decades earlier and is still around-ETL], he travelled to Beijing and was toasted by the senior Beijing leadership.
When the crazy left of the 70s died in the 80s, Klonsky went to graduate school in education in Florida and then moved to Chicago.
While driving a cab there he [Michael Klonsky] was recruited by his old friend Bill Ayers to head up a new project called the Small Schools Workshop in 1991. Its offices were in the Department of Education building at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus where Ayers taught.
In 1995 the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge headed by Ayers and Obama gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000.
The Annenberg Challenge also had its office space in the same building as Ayers Department and the Workshop, rent free courtesy of the University.
In 2008 Klonsky ran a blog on the official Obama campaign website on education policy and social justice teaching. When discussion of the Klonsky blog emerged in the blogosphere, it was promptly shut down by the campaign and all of the posts made by Klonsky were removed from the site."
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/
________________________________________________________
In 1977, the October League was reorganized as the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) [again, not Communist Party USA (CPUSA) -ETL] and former SDS activist Michael Klonsky became party chairman. Also in 1977, Klonsky traveled to China and the CPML was recognized by the Chinese Communist Party as its official sister party in America.
(snip)
In January 1981, Michael Klonsky resigned as party chairman, and the CPML disbanded that same year.
The previous Red Encyclopedia description of the CPML was incorrectly combined with that of the Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist).
http://reds.linefeed.org/past.html
________________________________________________________
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posted on
10/16/2008 5:00:22 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
By William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn
An alleged date rape after a party at our kids high school became a huge focus of fear and anxiety, conversation, accusation, and contention. The adults, typically, knew almost nothing, but the kids were all abuzz. Would the young woman tell her parents? Would she file charges? Would the event and the aftershock become openly acknowledged?
We overheard Zayd, Malik, and Chesa talking about it and, as usual, butted in. When they seemed evasive and somewhat lighthearted about what we took to be a most serious act, we began to question them sharply:
Do you understand what a profound violation, what a disgusting and vile crime is being alleged? Dont you see how badly she was hurt and how unjust and immoral it was?
If a girl says no at any point, everything stops there.
The girl never did tell her parents. Charges were never filed.
William Ayers is distinguished professor of education...Really Billy?
This is what a domestic terrorist bomber
rapist preaches to his children?
To: LucyT
After that, I inform Martha that I'm dragging her to the apartment of old friends, ex-Weathermen, Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, hosting a party for
Senator Leahy. Perhaps
Edward Said will be there I urge her to come by promising that the event will push the edges of the envelope of her centrist politics.

Edward Wadie Saïd MRSL (إدوارد وديع سعيد; 1 November 1935 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian American literary theorist, cultural critic, political activist, and an outspoken advocate of Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and is a founding figure in postcolonial theory.
marked to read more later
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posted on
10/16/2008 7:53:22 AM PDT
by
~Kim4VRWC's~
(Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
This is why we need to be concerned about Bill Ayers and his connection to Barack Hussein Obama. He and his Wife Bernardine Dorhn raised this step Son Chesa who is a Communist ACTIVIST!. Funny how you can go from community activist to being a full fledged Communist. But Americans better wake up before we elect the real Manchurian Candidate. Obamas link to Ayers and Dohrn are important to us as we will end up like Cuba or Venezuela a country that both Ayers and Chesa are really tied too. Do a Google search for this connection.
There is a chapter in the book by the son of Rashid Khalidi that again shows Why the Jewish voter should be alarmed with voting for Obama. Rashids son is Ismail Khalidi as radical as you can get. Read at Google Books his letter to his parents! This is very troubling if youre an Israel supporter.
Recent Macalester College graduate Ismail Khalidi, 22, was born to Palestinian parents in Lebanon and grew up in Chicago. His letter is to his parents and he wrote it right after the seige and bombardment of Fallujah in November 2004. "It was written in a desolate time of year--winter--miming the desolate time in our country and other countries," says Khalidi. "It's really kind of a 'sad poem,' but also a way for me to take stock of what I believe in." And what he believes in is the struggle for justice.
, Khalid writes, "I know I am never doing enough and that I have much to learn, but I know that I am still learning, and that I will find my own way to fight. I know you understand that, and that is what pushes me onward when the wind chill plummets and when lies pass for truth."
You can only assume Ismail was another classmate of Chesa and taught by Ayers,Dorhn and Obama.
Obamas Ties to anti-American friends is troubling and we need to stop his election by educating the American public.
Here is the link to a book published by Chesa and others. I can bet you that most of these activists are working for Obama or ACORN during this campaign in some stealth manner.
LETTERS FROM YOUNG ACTIVISTS Edited by Dan Berger Chesa Boudin and Kenyon Farrow
Todays Rebels SPEAK OUT
Preface by Bernardine Dohrn
They even have a website called : http://www.lettersfromyoungactivists.org/


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posted on
10/16/2008 10:39:33 AM PDT
by
ncfool
(Obama stands for The New United Socialist State or "TNUSSA")
To: KayEyeDoubleDee; Calpernia
I haven’t had the chance to research this, but Obama used to be a regular guest and host on WOVN Radio in Chicago. I would love to find some of his archives.
WVON - The Talk of Chicago - provides an interactive forum for the African- American community to discuss current, social, economic, and political issues.
wvon.com/
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posted on
10/16/2008 10:45:41 AM PDT
by
AuntB
( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: ETL
THANKS!!!! I knew you would have the low-down.... ;)
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posted on
10/16/2008 12:05:57 PM PDT
by
BossLady
(Say Hello to .....Jericho....)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
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posted on
10/16/2008 1:04:06 PM PDT
by
Munz
(Infiltrate Interrogate Eradicate NEXT!)
To: LucyT
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posted on
10/16/2008 3:18:29 PM PDT
by
1COUNTER-MORTER-68
(THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
To: AuntB; Calpernia
Obama also used to do commentaries for NPR, back in the 1990s - I’d like to hear them, as well.
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posted on
10/16/2008 11:17:03 PM PDT
by
KayEyeDoubleDee
(const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Thanks for posting the Klonsky info, that was getting overlooked in the
last post I saw on this. Good work.
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